Theism

Beginner

Nothing here assumes you have read philosophy before. Every term is defined where it first appears, and the motivating example comes before the formalism.

What God Is Claimed to Be
The package of attributes the word normally carries: maximal power, maximal knowledge, perfect goodness, and responsibility for everything else
8 min
Theism, Atheism, and Agnosticism
Three positions distinguished by what each asserts rather than by how confident anyone feels
9 min
Needs firstWhat God Is Claimed to Be
Creation, Conservation, and Providence
What it means for everything else to depend on God, both at the first moment and at every moment after it
9 min
Needs firstTheism, Atheism, and Agnosticism
Faith and Reason
Whether faith supplements argument, replaces it, or is answerable to it, and what each answer commits you to
10 min
Needs firstCreation, Conservation, and Providence
How Arguments About God Work
Why almost nobody now offers a proof, and what it means to argue that a hypothesis is instead made more likely by the evidence
10 min
Needs firstFaith and Reason